Steve Sedgwick

Anchor, CNBC

Steve Sedgwick co-anchors CNBC's flagship program "Squawk Box Europe" having spent nearly three decades in and around financial markets, first as a trader and then as a journalist.

Steve has attended high levels international events for CNBC for over a decade including key G7, G8 and G20 meetings, as well as the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia and the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he also routinely moderates key panels on a host of subjects. Steve also led our coverage of the COP21 climate change talks in 2015.

In 2014 Steve was on the ground for CNBC in Kiev, Ukraine during the Russian annexation of Crimea and interviewed key players, including the President and Prime Minister of Ukraine throughout the conflict.

Steve is also CNBC's OPEC reporter, covering major meetings and interviewing top OPEC oil ministers, non-OPEC ministers and heads of bodies such as the IEA and EIA.

Prior to joining CNBC, Steve worked for the UK Press Association on the City desk and at Dow Jones on the European Markets desk. At Dow Jones, Steve regularly broke market-moving stories and was a contributor to The Wall Street Journal Europe.

Before his career in journalism, Steve spent 11 years trading in the financial markets, specialising in equity and bond market derivative products. In 1988, Steve joined Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formerly Kleinwort Benson Securities) and worked as an equity option marketmaker before moving on to Credit Lyonnais where he became Head of the London option market-making team on Liffe.

Steve studied politics at the University of London, with a focus on world economic development, IMF, World Bank and WTO; and journalism at the National Council for Training Journalists.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled a timetable for her departure as leader on Friday morning, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to an abrupt end. CNBC's Steve Sedgwick reports from London.

U.K. lawmakers have rejected a "no deal" Brexit. Now they will decide whether or not to delay the U.K.'s exit from the European Union, which is currently scheduled for March 29th. CNBC's Steve Sedgwick reports from London.

The UK is holding another major Brexit vote today following parliament overwhelmingly shot down Theresa May's last-ditch proposal for an exit plan. Lawmakers will decide if they want to leave the European Union in 16 days without a deal. CNBC's Steve Sedgwick reports.

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced legally binding assurances from the E.U. in a last-ditch effort to persuade parliament to back her exit deal. The Parliament is set to vote ahead of the March 29th deadline. CNBC's Steve Sedgwick reports.

I just want to point out there are one or two other issues that may also screw things up, especially for financial markets, in addition to whether Britain slips its moorings and drifts away from Europe to somewhere lost in the mid-Atlantic.